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i would set up port forwarding for 2 specific ports.
and for some reason they both would just stop forwarding ports on their own without warning
spend a day going over the config, everything set up right. would just dump and reload. and working again. would happen once every 6 months.
that is beautiful btw @clear ferry
eventually i got tired of it and switched to untangle. havent had any issues with it.
#funstorytime hope you enjoyed it.
I ran untangle for a year
How do you sleep when you see so much day light?
It was OK, but I found the ui shit
Alcohol?
@last plaza thick window blinds
meh different strokes different folks
Pfsense has become stale, with little interest in bringing out new cool features, and the mods are ultimate neckbeards, if you think I'm bad....
Speaking of, I need to shave today, well at least trim. Gotta keep the neckbeard pristine
Iโll throw some scented oil in there too
Maybe a few ornamental trinkets and tokens of battles won
Hate the neck beard. Itches too much
Yeah it makes me rage
Up to some point. After that you are fine.
My wife thinks Iโm having some existential crisis but itโs just neckbeard ๐
Almost all my buddies are growing beard lately.
Yeah I donโt trim anywhere near as often now that Iโm wfh
Work from home impacting blade businesses too ๐
I should shave my head soon
But beard oil business is booming
Been 5 months
5 months? You might as well pig tail
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My fiancee finally basically gave me a buzz lol
1/2" length all around
Now the length matches everywhere... if you catch my drift
You got covid cut then.
Why is it so fun to tuya-convert stuff
@scenic radish I thought your ass was bigger tbh
Someone's up late 
Considering how much of an ass you are!

no u

Itโs been too hot these days. Close to three digits. Need rain or something. Grass is all brown and crunchy now
tried it like 1 year ago
What's a "brooms or mops"?
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Iโm starting to hate LinkedIn. It is becoming more like that shitty ass Facebook.
LinkedIn is useless
Every thing you do, every thing you say, everyone you are connected to, they figured out a way to turn that into money for themselves. You are just an idiot for giving away all that information.
BuTT I gAwT NotHiNg tO HidE
not anymore.
(/s if it wasnt obvious)
Facebook, google, LinkedIn and others got you. By the balls already. There is nothing they donโt know about you.
Now that you are on Discord, it will join the ranks quickly or get bought over.
Trust me when I say discord is safe for the moment because of incompetence.
Their backend is so bad they have issues searching it.
They never could get it working on AWS
The whole project was an absolute disaster
Love it.
We believe you.... @velvet horizon can confirm
And one of the staff was at our office in a fucking fursuit
They should run their servers completely on RAM with no storage or persistence.
I got the proof too. I see how unstable discord servers are. My logs says it clearly.
They are al in for money. They need to generate money somehow.
Discord Nitro is huge money maker rn
If you build it they will come. Shitty or not.
Discord spell check changed shitty to shorty ๐คฃ
They knew you where talking about them
Discord spell check?
Never understood the nitro concept. Other than animated emojis, what do you get?
Customize the # in your username
Bragging rights
A lighter wallet
And my axe!
Slack you have to pay for every user
Discord you dont
In bulk communities its cheaper
I prefer my memes uncompressed tyvm @obsidian geyser
extra deep fried
Free tier is not good enough with slack.
Only organic, grass-fed memes
Most enterprises go@with rocket chat or slack
gayming
Since when were you every Project Manager/C*O ever rofl
@clear ferry watching this... completely shot in Norway, and the aerial shots are amazing! https://www.netflix.com/title/80232926
Actors are a little weird ๐
It is okay...
it is norway after all
I'm looking to write an automation to make my phone ring with google's "find my phone" api
does anyone know of a script that'll do this?
I was going down a rabbit hole of oauth2 stuff and funky undocumented api stuff
but that'd be a tricky 1๏ธโฃ
yeah
if it were even possible
I mean, I can do it in a web browser, so I know I can do it in a script
@dull chasm you were looking for a sub-woofer cable right? https://www.audiogon.com/listings/lis9bjj0-purist-audio-design-corvus-luminist-1-5-meter-rca-interconnects
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i have an esp32 board with an ILI9341 TFT display module. is anyone aware of any projects that support that display out of the box, that would integrate with HA?
yeah not so much after a library as a project like esphome
oh, looks like tasmota might support it
looks nice ....could not do proper sourrond sound
There's a theatre nook
Well whatever you call it
Open room at the front of the house,
lol
Those floorboards though, noice
dark ....bamboo?
Kitchen seems workable
marri
Marri is commonly referred to as 'red gum'. Marri is usually a medium sized to tall tree up to 40 m in height with flaky grey bark, widely distributed in the south-west of Western Australia in the jarrah and karri forests. It extends from north of Geraldton southwards to Cape Riche, and eastwards to beyond Narrogin in the Wheatbelt.
Master bedroom is at the front of the house :/ but it's set back from the street a fair bit
And I'll probably put a front wall in eventually
Single storey?
That's what I want
It's a 600sqm block,
I've done multistorey a lot as well
And I am very over the stairs
Plus the heat stack makes managing the heating/cooling quite difficult
And any electrical
Plus any work done on the house is more expensive. Gutters, solar panel, roof plumbing repairs, etc etc
Plus I can cover the entire house with one robot vacuum cleaner
And you don't have to worry about toddlers tumbling down the stairs or your grandparents not being able to get up to the guest room etc
Single storey always wins if the land is big enough imo
Yes. When was the last time stairs gave you pleasure?
If it gives you any indication
In the country where land is dirt cheap per sqm, even the richest guys in town have single storey houses
They just have massive houses
i realy need help
after config the duck dns i can go to my raspberry pi and my duck dns is goin to my router pannel any ideas ?
??
that is for me ?
oh sorry what channel then ?
@hushed basalt looks nice. Like open floor plan
@dull chasm already getting ready to boost it up ? ๐
no one online in that room ๐ญ ๐ญ ๐ญ @rain swift
@tidal bronze prolly not but would spend on that before that damn cable
LMAO. That cable and stuff on that site is nuts man. Saw a mono amp for 50k.
I am nuts but not that nuts.
close ๐คฃ
@fathom steeple NO HOME ASSISTANT SUPPORT HERE (look at the other channels for that). NO POLITICS OR RELIGION!
BE CIVIL to one another or get BANNED permanently.
why the bot i saying that can we go to the other room @rain swift
Retail 120k looks like he paid that ๐
ok dokey ....i got to much wrapped up in mine but no stupid shit like that
When you listen to that amp you zego G and floats 3' above ground. Which is cool I think.
my ip dont work with the ip anymore why ?
๐ค it would have to do alot more than that for me .....
LMAO
@fathom steeple your conv will quickly be lost in here ..... best to go to support chanell for your install method
The @rain swift better help now.
snap snap the @rain swift
Such a kind soul you are specially when not mowing down people coming up the stairs.
i second that and not being strongly opinuted
still you should be nice and ask if you can help them
sure sounds good
High carbs, that's not nice.
Girls scout cookies?
true he is trying to kill us @tidal bronze i didnt think of that
fresh salad and fruit and ice water
More like it. ๐
i think he should be liable .....i was getting fat just thinking of the cookies
Almost done with my ahi tuna steaks.
multi party suit ...but your right
wait mine have teflon too
no 5.7x28 ....teflon coated
no shit .....but them hard headed zombies .....they tough
not enough pentration
come on follow along
hard headed zombies
not mushy zombies
nn past my bedtime too
@tidal bronze it's semi open floorplan I guess
There's a big common dining/kitchen/casual lounge area
But everything after that is closed
4 bedroom, activity and formal loungeroom
@rare condor I've secured an electrician friend
i do everything on my own, still alive
it raises your testosterone levels brother
Invalids my insurance though
I'm quite confident in my ability to safely do basic electrical work but I have a telecoms background
I'm also confident in the ability of an insurance investigator to invalidate a claim because of DIY electrical work even if it's not at fault
home insurance?
Because straya!
Are you ready for me to join the homeowners side of society @clear ferry
Could someone create a pie chart for me? I would like to have a chart evaluating all messages on this server an group them into three categories: % of messages -> 1. which are questions 2. which are answers 3. which say โwrong channel
I have a distinct feeling that the third part of that pie chart will be overwhelming ๐คฃ
man euro kids/gamers are waaaaaay diffrent than american ones lol
the game i been playing a lot lately Rust is the single most toxic game ever created and I don't know how but EU players just aren't toxic in it lol
Because we are decent people 
I've played games online for 20+ years, I've never encountered a toxic player, then again I don't go to US servers
no but you all seem to cheat way more than we do lmao
I never seen as many banned players in a duration than I have when joining an EU server
Don't know what is worse though
dunno but in this game where you are suppose to pvp on american servers you get pvp and shit talk but on eu servers you get invited for tea and biscuits
Muuurica
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This potential house has a dark roof
Should be illegal to have dark roofs in cooling climates,
Country of the free(ly expanding pandemic)
=3
@rare condor's state almost had it under control
Until the bikie ran security company mananging the quarantine hotel had guards who had sex with quarantined people in the hotel
Norwegian Patent Failure? ๐คฃ

We watched seals being fed at the aquarium today
Eww! Poor seals.
You feed them candy? ๐ญ ๐ฌ
They like cod!
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We spent a fortune to pet dolphins last year. Man, they stink!
Swimming with dolphins. Kids loved it - thatโs what matters.
They are friendly and smart creatures.
Dolphins love raping @last plaza
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It's true though
Rape who? Other dolphins?
They usually gang up on a single female
Gang rape. Kinky dolphins.
Yes, and play with other animals violently until the they die
Kinda like the killer whale, they toy with seals for hours until they die
Holy shit! Did not know that. I changed my views about dolphins now.
I also need to educate my kids on this ๐
Should I mention that almost all koalas have klamydia too?
You should have told me last year. Iโd have saved $1K easily.
Good thing we donโt have koalas in muuurica
Beautiful day today. High 85F with 15 mph winds. Iโm just gonna sit on my ass on my porch all day.
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My boobs are fine thanks!
@hushed basalt lol at your description bikie ran security company mananging the quarantine hotel had guards who had sex with quarantined people
So work gave me these BLE Tile Tracker things, but I don't trust the Tile App.
What are they for, work wise
PLC Cabinet Keys and Keys to Vaults
2010 oofph
The report from the Liquor, Hospitality and Miscellaneous Union (LHMU), which represents security guards, says the industry is being let down by unscrupulous contractors cutting corners and failing to train, recruit or pay staff appropriately.
Please keep in mind our whole state hates this company now
The tile app forces you to give access to your location services. I hate that.
I literally haven't used it
They need both Bluetooth and location services.
Because of this
Bluetooth is location services
I was hoping an FOSS alternative existed given its a dumb BLE Beacon
Hate that shit. Waste of money spending on it. Got a good deal, but now I am regretting.
Should I set it up and sell my soul?
Btw hax do you know if I can put an electrical safe silicone on a waterpik transformer to stop it whining
Donโt. Unless you have short term memory loss issues, you donโt need them.
TIL what a waterpik is.
I have never installed silicone on a transformer before to inhibit coil whine
Asking from a regs perspective or will it work perspective?
@last plaza I lost my keys 5 times and I haven't even been outside my home for 4 days
Will it work
I assume it's a Transformer
I haven't opened it up but it's just a pump so it shouldn't have any complex electronics
Pretty big assumption imo
@rare condor we used to have those little gadgets, when you whistle, they whistle back. I need to look into them.
The last one I opened up was just a transformer and a pump but this is a different revision
Like a dumb Iron core tranny or SMPS?
It's worrying how much noise this makes when its "off" though
Dumb iron
Similar
Maybe I should take it back
But then I have to argue with the 16 year old behind the counter at chemist warehouse
"it makes a noise"
Honestly when I have had to limit noise it has been a vibration issue with the casing, I have never used silicone directly on the transformer. I don't have enough experience on that front, but make sure it is def the transformer which is causing the noise.
I wonder how much vampire energy it must be using
To be audible across the bathroom
My house uses 500w doing bugger all. I know the servers combined pull 200w but no idea where the remaining 300w standby goes. Was going to get IOTAWatt for that purpose.
You could just make an inline plug with your multimeter
Just testing amps should be enough for an indication
I have plenty of high end power meters and testing kits which go to nA, but its more due to laziness, cbf testing every appliance one by one.
I might be a home owner in a couple of months
It'll be good to be able to do my own stuff
One of the kits I used for building BLE sensors measures 0.1nA to 3/100th precision
Nice Congratulations ( for the future )
I might be a home owner in a couple of months
@hushed basalt how are the interest rates in Australia?
I considered buying a FLIR to check insulation
But apparently the price has hiked due to covid
The rates have come down for us.
You can buy microusb models cheap (designed for phones) and use type c adapter
Not many houses in the market.
About 2.75%
Thatโs really good.
A small unit where I live (2 bedroom) costs 834,000.00 USD
The lowest Iโve seen is 2.5 in the last 20 years.
Governments pulling every lever to stop a slowdown in house price growth
Let alone a decline
Looking at a 4x2 plus study and theatre in the suburbs for $530k here
For 850K, you get a mansion here with indoor pools and game rooms and acres of backyard.
But I want to live close to things ๐
I meant a Real City
Heh
Walking distance to the trainstation though
So you could still club and one of Perths .. nevermind it's Perth
Renting for 10 years I'm very over it
Yes but I want people in the nightclubs not crocodiless and kangaroos
I'll stop dissing perth now given what Vic is up to atm ๐
I am sorry on behalf of Victoria ๐
We win all arguments
Never heard about those wild dogs (whatever you call them) you guys have in Australia until you guys mentioned.
Yes but community transmission requires people and things to do, easy to achieve in Perth given your so isolated and limited night club selection ๐
Ah yes, the Tasmanian Tigers very dangerous Dog
They're out of control
In Asian countries, they have issues with Komodo dragons. They kill small children.
We need a culling of the Tasmanian tiger
Really? Is that a big problem out there?
Not as bad as the Drop Bears
Between the Tasmanian Tigers and Dropbears I can't sleep at night
Google says they are extinct? ๐ค
That's what they want you to think
Google hides the truth, need to keep Aussies calm enough going on with COVID
Dingo! Thatโs the name of it.
Dropbears absorb 5G waves
Dropbears are koalas?
Thanks to koalakiller and the bushfires we're getting overloaded now
On a rather sombre note this year has sucked royally, I was at Hospital all day Thursday ๐ฆ
What for?
My sister had pins and needles running up her face and couldn't control arm, so I had to drive her to Hospital
They have done CT scans but can't figure out what is wrong
Yeah, I hope so to.
Sorry to hear.
Appreciate the thought, it isn't debilitating as after each instance, she continues her day as normal. (after 4 hours waiting at Hospital) Its more just to monitor if she enters a stroke or something, they need to observe her. But until they know why this occurs its worrying for her. Also requires a family member be with her always when her bf isn't around, given she now is working from home in lock down
Any EScooter people in here?
Hey wanted to get opinions I'm moving this week and will be starting over with my home assistant journey.
I have been running 90% zwave with my current setup. Starting over I was considering moving more to wifi
Why's that?
I'd be suggesting the other way...
Honestly no reason other reason than just weighing options
If you already have Zwave there is not much point
Having a mix of stuff is fine
But yeah, no need to switch if you already have a Z-wave network
I've been happy with my zwave setup just looking to future proof the new place.
Wifi has a number of attributes making it less suitable then Zwave for a number of general home automation applications
I will be buying everything new so staying from scratch either way
Perfect I appreciate your guys opinion!
I'll take all your zwave stuff ๐
It sells with my house ha ha
Notably I prefer to keep my Wifi separate from my IoT stuff.
really when I move house I am removing all this stuff
Its like a modded car, devalues the asset.
Please around here want dumb switches
Zigbee or Z-Wave are, IMO, the best choices
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Nope the new buyer wanted it and was part of the contract ha ha I was planning on taking it but got 15k above asking price so was ok letting it go
interesting
Great I'll be sticking to zwave! I appreciate your opinions!
I'm really excited about the new zwave mqtt stuff that's coming out in ha as well
I donโt know about others. Z-wave has been less than reliable for me. WiFi devices work like charm and never had any issues.
Been trying to reduce my z-wave footprint. I got ton of them for free a few years ago, hard to get rid of them.
I just don't like sharing my Laptop Bandwidth with dumb IoT gear
Zigbee is also very reliable.
agreed
I have found Osram and Phillips Gear to not be all that reliable with Zigbee but Xiaomi stuff and Aqara to always work flawlessly!
I never even had to try zigbee2mqtt. Why break it when it works flawlessly
z2m is nice
I've read for larger areas zwave does a better job with it's mesh than zigbe?
Oh really. Ok interesting
The answer is complicated
You have to have powered devices in order for you to create mesh. Otherwise it is a mess.
Z-Wave has a nominal better range between devices, but a lower device limit and a 4 hop limit
Zigbee is faster though, a significantly higher device limit, and no hop limit
Of course, if you're starting fresh, IMO go either Zigbee 3.0 only (since it's a full standard, with certification) or Z-Wave Plus only
Zigbee will be significantly cheaper ๐
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Thank you. I did into it a bit!
Will dig into it a bit
Hadnt considered the zigbe route fully yet
Or, put it this way, I recently bought enough Zigbee sensors for every exterior window. That came to a somewhat painful ยฃ140. If I'd bought Z-Wave it'd have been ยฃ700...
Oh wow yeah that's a huge difference.
I love the xiaomi products. Excellent form factor, cheap inexpensive, and battery lasts forever virtually.
Yup
Only downside is it takes forever to deliver on a slow boat from China.
Most used xiaomi product at home is the cubes. Love them.
I need to order one of those the next time I'm ordering stuff and try it out
They are super fun. Kids love them.
When you shake them, it changes colors of philips hue lights in the living room. Kids play with it a lot.
does anyone have a discrete grafana panel showing a boolean that they'd be willing to send me their json snippet for? im so so lost ๐ฆ
Not sure if we have a good channel to discuss influxdb and grafana.
#general-archived is as close as it gets - the dumping ground
Or first place folks post ๐คท
#reporting sounds like a good channel to create and promote.
is that a subtle way of saying "you're posting in the wrong place, you noob" ? ๐
Not at all. You are welcome to ask here. Iโm afraid you may not get proper support. Thatโs all.
i was just joking, its all good.
Come to think of it, most folks pay attention to the fun part - which is the automations. Very few people pay attention to the big data aspect of IOT. It would be good to have analytics channel.
@rare plover you might want to check out the community forum. Someone must have already done it.
i found several posts but none with enough detail to help me figure out what the heck im doing
(big data issssss the fun part ๐ )
@rare plover well, @clever mortar created a new channel for #analytics-archived ๐
May be we can start there.
After succumbing to my friend's relentless pestering to try Home Assistant, I am full-blown addicted.
I am pretty damn sure I had a dream about HA last night
I have already ordered 20 plant sensors for 0 reason other than it'd look pretty neat on a dashboard even if I don't need it at all.
Started googling other sensors last night
at what point does the house become sentient
The newly created #analytics-archived channel will help you make it so...
ahh, man. I do analytics for work. I am going to make my house real dumb
if I start hooking up elasticsearch, I won't be able to get away from anything
@night zodiac if you do analytics for living, we need you active in the #analytics-archived show the world what you can do and whatโs possible.
I never said I was good at it
lol. No one is an expert here. Except @light trout We are all learning and having fun.
I don't do analytics really, I just like do the data stuff for the other nerds to have
I could have phrased it better
I put the data there, I don't make the dashboards and such in kibana
I know a lot of peeps like grafana with HA
I can't dig into anything like that or I'll get stuck
with time
I feel like I messed with grafana a long time ago
It would have been ontop of a relational db though
Next there will be #directory, which will basically be the channels and their topics...
That would make a good @velvet horizon command.
NFSv4 on ZFS ftw
Given the length of the message @last plaza the bot would have to DM it to folks ๐
@mild tapir nfsv4 was needed for years, multichannel nfsv3 was a mishmash of propitary vendors in the hpc market
Fucking PITA v3 was
so i have my database in mariadb, and am connecting to that with grafana. is that my problem?
I am running NFSv4 using RDMA over IP right now. NFSv3? Holy shit, prepare to have everything fall apart.
Multichannel is so much worth when you are reading from 20+ nodes for the same nfs namespace
It is also much easier to setup rootless access and run.
ZFS + NFSv4 was a match made in heaven for me.
@hushed basalt it's better to die than live on your knees, I suggest doing your own electrical work
my monthly wage
I've got a couple questions about Insteon integration w/ a PLM - which channel is the best place to direct that to?
Integrations would be ... #integrations-archived
@clever mortar : Lol thanks, wasn't sure given I saw some channels for zigbee, etc.
The channel topics have further hints in them
do anyone here have hue outdoor lights (calla) and experience moist inside them? I bought 10 calla about a year ago, and thats over 1000USD, and all of them have moist inside, one died this far.
@night zodiac I too have become full-blown addicted to HA
https://i.redd.it/bfhr4yjpq9a51.jpg diz u @tidal bronze ?
If you bought one of this (sold at apple (removed now), power (norway, sweden, denmark), elkjรธp (norway, sweden), coop and many others. do NOT use them as they catch fire
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That is the douchiest charge stand I have ever seen
@late gate damn. $1000+ calla lights getting moisture and qi chargers melting $1000+ apple gear. i would need a few beers after that.
@clear ferry it is, but its sold here in norway, even sold at apple store
Apple ๐คข
coop and elkjรธp still sells it
hope your luck gets better
I just assumed when even apple sells it it should be some quality check
@terse stag good customer laws so it sort itself out. the callas is 5 years on so I dont worry, just wondered if anyone had experienced it or I just had a bad batch
yay agreed with the buyer of the house I could take all hue lights outside. they didnt want to buy a hub
Apple sells quality?
well I expect a bit more QC than ebay import
you know how much the importers whine in the news about people importing chargers from ebay how dangerous it is, and then the stores import exactly the same chargers
I have become so happy with baseus I only order that from aliexpress
@clear ferry on chargers?
I had good experience with "ugreen" chargers and cables. never had issues with them, but a bit more pricy
from aliexpress
@late gate powerbanks, cables, car chargers and home chargers
I tried to order 20 plant sensors from them and instantly got flagged for suspicious activity and have to wait for an appeal process ๐
@clear ferry a bit cheaper than ugreen. maybe I will switch to that brand.
I've had zero issues
The power bank is amazing tbh
It lasted me a flight from Georgia to Oslo
Ugreen is sold on amazon here
I think ugreen is concidered a very good brand, so its a safe choice
I got some chargers from ebay that was so light they feel like air. A lot of extremely bad chargers out there
wow windows 10 with the latest update automatically put their new browser as standard, and deregister chrome
microsoft wishes it was 1997 again
hassio on rpi3 anyway to use tuya convert on it?
for this HA instance its the only thing ethernet and wifi in one
Anyway to use tuya-convert on...what? @shut raptor
hassio
Im pretty sure there is a docker image of tuya
so maybe just through portainer
Heh, all good. Not sure. I'd ask in #330990055533576204
You might not be able to put the WiFi radio in AP mode
You could flash Raspbian on another SD card and use tuya convert on that if all else fails
I was thinking maybe it could if you bind it to the container
yeah I suppose I could ya
Anyone here have experience rooting the wink relay? Been reading a lot about it. Just wanted to hear some personal experiences.
Is it a bit presumptious that npm installs a directory in your home called .config
Or is it shared between different apps?
there can be only one
Config storage locations seems to be a hot mess across the board
At least they're not putting it in documents I guess
Man that instantly puts the apps developers on my shitlist when apps do that
I thought it used to be .homeassistant
I've never installed homeassistant outside of docker
I like my WeatherFlow
It has a local UDP interface and integration
Nope
The haptic rain sensor is cool, but birds confuse it
Yep
I finally managed to put together a Custom Component that can read Weather data from a WeatherFlow Smart Home Weather station using the UDP API that this station exposes. This means that everything is running on the local network and there is no need to access anything outside...
Sitting on it
I have it on a flag pole
Sure, just better for wind higher up
Yeah, not gonna get the best data
I had this before HA. Iโm sure there are others
It was a kickstarter, I think
They have a new Tempest model now
I like that itโs small and can be accessed locally
I don't know if my landlord would be happy if I gave him more things to mow around
I'm going to look it up anyways
Congrats on your new lawn mowing job
I've wanted to get bird feeders too but didn't want to ruin his path
I need my aliexpress appeal to go through
I want to buy random sensors for no reason
If you have gmail just sign up for a new account with a dot somewhere in the address. AliExpress thinks it's unique and gmail doesn't
new account who dis
I think I was flagged because I made a new account and then instantly ordered 20 things with a new payment info. I sent them a picture of my id and card. Should be any day now.
If you have gmail just sign up for a new account with a dot somewhere in the address. AliExpress thinks it's unique and gmail doesn't
@dapper hedge is that why I get random emails because someone has the same email as me just without the dot?
If it's your username bloods@gmail.com you'll get the message even if it's sent to b.l.o.o.d.s@gmail.com same works for if your gmail "has dots" in it bloods.ha@gmail.com == bloodsha@gmail.com
There's also a trick using + to tag the address at the end with whatever you want, but a lot of sites don't recognize that as a valid email address, because conforming to a standard is apparently not required
Or a โ+โ. I make site specific addresses with myname+xxx@gmail.com when Iโm suspicious of the site
email+thing is supposed to route that email to the thing folder automatically
Oops, didnโt scroll ๐
Have some questions about HA though. Just getting started with this stuff, I got a couple lightbulbs and outlets switched to tasmota
They belong somewhere other than #the-water-cooler ๐
ok ๐
Howdy folks. I'm here to lurk and get more familiar with Home Ass. before integrating it.
Therefore, brunost is not technically cheese, and it does not taste like cheese.
Hmm. Maybe I would like it then
Love me some maple syrup
Hi everybody. I'm new here. However after seeing what was just posted, I may be leaving.
I only had grape jelly, no strawberry preserves. It was nice. But I grew up on waffles and peanut butter ๐คท๐ผโโ๏ธ
Sorry @eager yacht , itโs been a long day. Hope you will give the lounge a second chance
Omg. On waffles. Try it on your cheat day. Heaven.
That's like a case of "charge 200.... CLEAR!" ๐
Gotta have vegemite
But will try it out. @green inlet
Yeah but itโs our second amendment so everyone has to eat it!!
Yea, I was out watching a local band tonight. Had a couple. You canโt do it on the regular.
Old guard and Greyhound was too good.
@green inlet you are a trouble maker. Now I gotta go get waffles tomorrow. It's been a while๐คฃ
You had me at hello. That just made my heart smile. โ๐ป
okay, I ordered the wyze kit. time to annoy my girlfriend further with "useless" shit
sense all of the things
Is there a general consensus on what's the best smart display?
Google, amazon, other or a display+raspi?
I like my Google home hub, but the lenovo smart display looks nice
So my Aliexpress automatic taps came with 1 ohm resistors instead of 1k
I wondered why it smelt funny
now I just need to wait 4 monthes on shipping again ๐
@clear ferry The Lenovo looks nicer, but other than looks (and maybe the speaker) is worse in every way that counts ๐ฌ
Good to know 
The display is worse, the software lags behind, and because Lenovo make their own tweaks it seems to gain bugs 
I created my own display using raspi zero one + touch screen. It is a little slow as aspected (zero one is not meant to use in graphic applications). But still: Lovelace causes a lot of load in chrome browser on the pi. I still donโt accept that ๐. There must be a way to show a couple of sensors and provide some touch action without using an overkill raspi 4? Any ideas? In my opinion such a use case should be feasible with the processing power of an esp32...
Use a different UI...
Thought about that
I only came across some possibilities in a recent community post yesterday
Then you've not searched enough, because there's a stack of UI's out there ๐
HA Dashboard, Tileboard, and more I can't remember
As I said, I found them yesterday (stumbled over it )
Probably I did not search earlier as I fall in love with Lovelace so deep (therefore the name ๐ ) I wasnโt able to see others as I only had eyes for Lovelace ๐
I bet there will be a way to use Lovelace in โlow resources modeโ in the future. The disconnect option which was recently added, full kiosk mode etc lead the way...
Good luck!
It will be really great to not rent
Especially with Australias restrictive af rental rights
Congratulations
The house has PV but it's like 13 year old 1.5kw
So basically worthless
Will need to get a new install eventually
Did Perth get premium Feedin?
This would be on a premium feedin but it's probably expired by now
It doesn't carry to new owners IIRC anyway even if it did
Fair Enough
It has a pool and a big workshop though
I got sick of testing water get correct chemicals and maintaining it
So do it now or do it never
So I've got wiregaurd running in a VM, and a tiny travel router connected to it in a P2P connection tethered to an ATT hotspot and it's running flawlessly from across the country
I'm super impressed
It's saturating my home connections entire upstream bandwidth without breaking a sweat
This may not be the right place, but does anyone know if there are any zigbee switch brands I can use to replace the standard ones in the wall.
I know the ones that come with trรฅdfri etc, but I don't want people randomly using the standard switches which make the whole thing stop working.
You do realise there's a channel called #zigbee-archived ?
Sorry, I will post there :)
@clever mortar we should make a channel called #tinkerer
All we need is for people to take a minute before posting, but .... 
HA! ๐คฃ
Give me color
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Make a role called professional shitposter and assign it to me
make the color brown
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We have that, but if you get it you will not be able to post anymore
Like you ever fart a fart that you knew was coming for some time and you were waiting for it you pass the gas and it just feels so good
@hushed basalt 5kw Fronius Primo SC and 20x330w Jinko Cheetah Panels (i.e. 6.6kw), costs 4511$ after STCs & 1888$ from Vic Solar Homes rebate. Plus 1888$ interest free loan from government. Puts payback period at 4.5 years given feed in of 0.12 c, but given lower feed ins from COVID that has pushed to 5-6years.
also RIP
I would calculate your payback on say.. 70% self consumption if you're smart
So you could calculate it as the cost of your import not your export
What's your import cost
Its actually almost 90% atm because at home all the time and dryer is on zigbee plug
Exactly,
Well soon to be, zigbee plug broke
I don't like the changes they made to the config menu
So every kwh you consume from your inverter is $0.x saved
You can look at my usage and costs here: https://pvoutput.org/intraday.jsp?id=84831&sid=76115&dt=20200703
PVOutput.org - share, compare and monitor live solar photovoltaic output data
I showed my wifes friends husband your setup
He works for a national industrial automation company
I can't remember the name
He was keen
He's a licensed elec. Too
So that will save me a fortune
I'll help him with automation and he'll help me with simple elec stuff
Do you think there's room for another row in there?
behind panel would tell you more.....is there another bus bar and etc
panels made for higher current can seem large but they account for larger gauge wires as they dont bend twist too well
I need one of those, I really want a sparky so I can ask random questions to. The industrial sparkys honestly have little knowledge on resi.
And yes there is additional room in your switchboard.
so cheap with solar in aus. here it was 22KUSD for 12kw
You can always subboard
yeah that is insane
Are rebates are pretty good
@hushed basalt Get a Hot Water Heat Pump when you get Solar
and the sun is from april to september with peak in may to august
when is the last time you experienced nostalgia?
1862
I'll need to run a lot of cables
I'm just going to pretend we get this house
I could run fibre to the shed and put my rack in there ๐ค
But I'd still have to have networking in the garage. Hmm
I could wall mount my 16u cabinet
Maybe not a couch, but a hanging bed?
Do use cables rather than chains, to prevent "squeak, squeak, squeak" during the movie
(despite it being less stylish)
ooof, ender 3 Pro is so tempting, then I saw the ender 5 
think I'll go to the ender 3 Pro anyway
y so many ender
More is better right
ender 3, ender 3x, ender 3 Pro, ender 3 v2
Why not buy them all

@clear ferry just buy a prusa right away
Only enterprise 3D printers are acceptable for Hobbyists
@clear ferry Sell your servers ๐ Got to be a few million there
I've only ever sold a few used washers and dryers in my life
I never sell anything ๐ฉ
Now I understand why you want a big house
I still throw stuff out 
I'm a cheapskate
I didn't know my friend was a hoarder until I visited his house and his sink was used as a filing cabinet. I casually used the toilet with random toys all over the floor and had to go outside and use a garden hose to wash with
and the ender has a great community
You know you can run HASS on a $35 Raspberry Pi, great savings if you sell your servers ๐
current house is only 250m2, I want to upgrade to 450m2 
my entire house is 75m2
even that's a bit much, I am OCD about Plastering and FLoor been level, if I had a big house I would legit have no time for anything apart from home improvement
More space is nice, it has to be said
Its more maintenance though, minimalist lifestyle mean less worries. Its a very personal thing, and I understand not everyone is like me.
But your wrong if you don't agree with me
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For me it's a balance between things and space. I like more space and less things
I don't agree
My wife is anti minimalist
She has those travel brochures from a cananda trip 15 years ago
It's a nice Euphemism though
Oofph you should see her grandparents
Peak level hoarders
The nana is a compulsive consumer
8+ tubs of butter in the fridge I shit you not
Well, people are buying Kgs of Toilet paper so I no longer judge
They'll just wander down to woolworths and just go browsing
On that note, I know a friend who went to a secret party last night. This Lockdown won't end thanks to people like him :/
Pick stuff off the shelf with no regard if they need it or already have 2 years worth
I just have a 200sqm house and have 150 moving boxes this far
yep people are dumb
still counting
Moving sucks
Since we moved we've got rid (charity shops, sold, recycled) about a third of what we took with us
Im trying to sell and give away, but not easy in corona times
Yeah ๐ฆ
Well, a lot gets ruined when left in the rain...
more so that its basically rubbish and no one is coming to op shops
so its trash they have to deal with
My council gives 3 free skips a year
Good Councils do that
My council has the stupid hard rubbish at november system where you put everything out all at once and street looks like crap and randoms drive around picking stuff up trying to find stuff to resell while making a mess
The free skip system on demand is 4999 times better
You know what a skip is right?
Like a Rubbish Bin at least 1m3 or larger made of steel?
Oh, a dumpster (in US terms)
dumpster?
Skip ๐
Rubbish?
Trash?
Skip?
I can't understand you, I have no idea what you mean?
@clever mortar you mean a click ?
I can't ๐ understand ๐ your accent ๐
well sounds like the people that decide to give away things should be more responsible ?
We have a Lorry that picks up the skip, right before Queens Bday
Also bit depressed:
My $3 Aliexpress multimeter probes left room for improvement
It was going to magically disappear few months ago ๐ค
2021 November I reckon Int borders will reopen for Aus to limited extent
Thanks Melbourne
Oh btw I predict we won't find Vaccine
In next 3 years
Unlikely guess, but I'm a pessimist
Just like we won't find common sense in the US as well in the next 3 years
Common sense ain't common
Lol
@hushed basalt Rewired light switch today, cbf making neat, but believe me it was bad before, pervious owner screwed it up
Come on, you shouldn't be shocked, you see what questions folks post here .... @tidal bronze ๐
Hey Guys, I didn't read the manual or try any debugging at all but it doesn't work, what did I do wrong?
Cali seems the only state to have common sense (outsider looking in to US)
I have a question about ZigBee where should I ask
@hushed basalt FFS #zwave-archived obviously
@tidal bronze sorry i do have to agree with @rain swift about the common sense thing
I know me too.
I thought Zwave was for docker
@tidal bronze what does the new yamaha update provide?
Feel sorry for the entire country. @dull chasm
Mods can you ban people that annoy you?
Don't know. Is there an update. ?
Can't ban me, I'm a figment of your imagination
I feel this place is too liberal, I want a more facist discord server where people are banned at will.
@tidal bronze i do and dont ......its a easy solution ...have job .....pay taxes .....people get along .....dont do stupid shit .....profit
yes @tidal bronze i just got one
Proceeds to ban @rare condor
@hushed basalt what do you think of the wiring btw. I needed to get it done before sunset so I rushed a bit, not my finest hour
Actually, even better, we have a shadow ban role...
Nothing new I talk to myself all the time
I'm not an electrician but it looks clean and neat
If I left PLC wiring like that I would be fired
Domestic standards are lower though ;)
true.
I worry this new house could have diy electrical work hahacries
@dull chasm no updates on mine
Most updates are for streaming services and DSP corrections usually.
@clever mortar Can you ban me for 8hrs, I need to go to bed and have no self control...
i can if you want
@dull chasm something to try.... Add 5 ft to all measurements ๐
8hrs please, I actually have a flu shot and a metting so I really need to sleep, not forever if possible
like 8hrs ๐
Copy the existing setup to bank 2, modify bank 1 and add 4 or 5 ft to all measurements. Watch same ATMOS track before and after.
i got 2 foot on mine now .....did it change spacial ?
Test it. You will like it.
k ......got alot going on but will try ...listening to jazz tracks now but everyone is 44.1
Try tidal premium
If I ever get promoted on this server I want to be a sith lord, not a jedi, just FYI
i did have it but need to save money to complete move to property
Did you test the 19.99 plan?
i had a first responders mqa plan for 11.99 i think
Test the 19.99 for 30 days. I think you tested base plan.
no it was the highest tier
So you tested atmos tracks?
yes but they did not have much 3 months ago
Oh got it. ๐
plus the ui was full of bullshit i did not like
They are adding tracks almost weekly now. Pretty good list. Playing through AVR don't care much for UI.
does AI handle well i find it to favor right speakers for some reason
@rain swift nope
AI is selecting DSP based on content mostly.
@rain swift get 10k for audio and find music that plays on it
oh soon someone will say 1000 dollars cables give better sound
nope not us ....we are realist
but you do need 3k worth of amps ๐คฃ
or if you are @tidal bronze 10k
AI selects Cinema dsp3 for everything, I prefer auto decoder.
Rofl, all I have is a $300 DAC because the internal one is meh and has this wonderful hssssssssssssssssssssssssss with earphones
The extent of my audio
well you need more obivouisly @brisk glen
Itโs only $300 because itโs portable with a battery lol
Clearly not since it fixed my issue
Giant oled TV
@rain swift with current tech in AVRs you really don't need a dedicated room. Room correction tech has come a long way.
As long as you have average positioning the AVR will handle the rest.
Even a base AVR will have multi seating position room correction and you are good to go.
By adjusting virtual distance you can make the space big or small. Pretty easy.
"are children small, or just really far away?"
Did you have too much cookie butter too early ?
Lol
Tried some of the cookie butter on the cookies themselves
It was like cookieception
Still don't get it
I have to move away from SwiftKey, after they became a Microsoft product they are shite
@tidal bronze what is this too much or too early cookie butter you speak of? Heresy!
๐ Blame @scenic radish
we went from solid audio components to peanut butter ....i am completly lost
i guess if your peanut butter makes you happy then who am i to complain
Oh this is no peanut butter vaseline
This is pure fat with cookies finely ground into it with no nutritional value to be found
damn so we say have your peanut butter and it turns into fat and american .....damn go figure
@scenic radish so it's the american national dish you say
Wut
This is pure fat with cookies finely ground into it with no nutritional value to be found
@scenic radish

Well, yes, @clear ferry just posted, so we know that ๐
no @rain swift norway is perfect .....from what i understand ....every other country is perfect

yet we still have the largest gdp of the planet
Gross dirty people?
Why are you bringing London into this?
Yes sir. Rocks!
Like legal meth right
Combined with brown cheese @green inlet
Waffles with brown cheese and jam last night ATX. After being out at the bar. Good stuff. Had to follow it up with waffles with peanut butter and syrup though
I carbโed hard last night
Peanut butter is god like
Dibs on your Zigbee stuff
Dibs on your brown cheese
You can have all my zigbee stuff today.
Us ๐ข
Well, since I have exactly zero zigbee stuff.
Ok, ritz crackers with brown cheese and prosciutto might be a thing.
where for custom_components?
London, UK. - https://i.redd.it/fn1zknar8ga51.png
#integrations-archived @fringe garden
Thanks!
AMERICA BAD LOLOLOLOLOLOL
To be fair, British humour is brutal about everybody, including the British
We laugh at everybody
Love it
Tedi we put an offer on a house
@hushed basalt noiceeeeeee
Fingers crossed we get it
It's scary though, committing to spending over half a million
Irish humour seems mostly to involve either drinking, or mocking the English... or both
Whoa
Irish jokes in England = Blond jokes in Muuurica
Florida is killing now. 15K cases in one day. Way to go FL!!!
@rain swift time to move out of hot bed now...
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@last plaza
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@scenic radish
@scenic radish
@last plaza

Today I am going to have some fun.
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